Where the word comes from
Mestre Irineu, the founder of Santo Daime, is credited with coining the term. It builds on the Portuguese verb mirar, to gaze at or contemplate — the same root that gives mirante, a lookout point high enough to take in a wide landscape. Miração fuses that idea of contemplation (mira) with ação, action, so the word itself holds looking and doing together.
Practitioners describe it as a term that named something Irineu had lived through directly, during his own early visionary experiences with the sacrament, rather than a concept borrowed from elsewhere.
Seeing and acting at once
Within the tradition, a miração is understood as more than a passing image or hallucination. It is described as carrying both a contemplative dimension — insight, symbol, recognition — and an active one, in which the visionary content is meant to inform how a person moves through their own life afterward.
Daimistas also speak of the need for discernment: distinguishing a genuine miração from ordinary imagination, wishful thinking, or mental projection is treated as a skill developed over time within the tradition, not something automatic.
Further
The tradition reads the word twice over. From mirar, to behold; and as mira + ação, looking joined to acting. The hinário footnotes describe a state of communion in which one perceives one's being as spirit, and hold that recollections of previous existences may come during it. They are careful to distinguish miração from hallucination and from imagination, and hold that the hymns and the order of the work are what guide and anchor it. That is the tradition's account of its own experience and is presented here as such, not as an empirical finding.